[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 18468 - NicolasPierron - nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/lib

[Lluís Batlle]

Hello all,
2009/11/20 Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 23:29, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
>> Overall, I feel that it’s nice to have more than just strings like
>> “i686-cygwin”, but I’m also slightly afraid of overdesign: building an
>> exceedingly complex model that’s too hard to keep close to reality.
>
> Could you develop what you are afraid of?

I think that whenever we put the system.nix into play on cross
compilation, for example, it will be easy to test how all works. Let's
make a binary for openbsd, one for win32, one for nios-linux, ...